Beyond Reflection: Affirmation as a Promising Behavioral Marker Associated with Quality in Text-Based Counseling

arXiv:2608.26689 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-27

Updated: 2026-08-27

Code: https://github.com/UECInabaLab/BeyondReflection

Terminology

• Motivational Interviewing — 5× in this paper
• Robustness — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Clustering — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Annotation Errors — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Causal Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Human-in-the-Loop — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multi-agent Collaboration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sycophancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• ChatCounselor: A Large Language Models for Mental Health Support

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